crawl in English

noun

1

an act of moving on one's hands and knees or dragging one's body along the ground.

they began the crawl back to their own lines

2

a swimming stroke involving alternate overarm movements and rapid kicks of the legs.

The crawl stroke, with flutter kick, had been introduced into competitive swimming a few years earlier by another Aussie.

3

a strip or band running across the bottom of a computer or television screen, within which news headlines, public service announcements, and advertisements are continuously scrolled.

verb

1

(of a person) move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground.

they crawled out from under the table

synonyms: creep, worm one's way, go on all fours, go on hands and knees, wriggle, slither, squirm, scrabble

2

behave obsequiously or ingratiatingly in the hope of gaining someone's favor.

don't come crawling back to me later when you realize your mistake

synonyms: grovel to, ingratiate oneself with, be obsequious to, kowtow to, pander to, toady to, truckle to, bow and scrape to, dance attendance on, curry favor with, make up to, fawn on/over, suck up to, lick someone's boots, butter up

3

be covered or crowded with insects or people, to an extent that is disgusting or objectionable.

the place was crawling with soldiers

synonyms: be full of, overflow with, teem with, be packed with, be crowded with, be alive with, be overrun with, swarm with, be bristling with, be infested with, be thick with, be lousy with, be jam-packed with, be chock-full of

4

(of a program) systematically visit (a number of web pages) in order to create an index of data.

its automated software robots crawl websites, grabbing copies of pages to index

noun

front crawl
crawling, creep, creeping

verb

creep, grovel to, be full of, cower
creep, worm one's way, go on all fours, go on hands and knees, wriggle, slither, squirm, scrabble
grovel to, ingratiate oneself with, be obsequious to, kowtow to, pander to, toady to, truckle to, bow and scrape to, dance attendance on, curry favor with, make up to, fawn on/over, suck up to, lick someone's boots, butter up
be full of, overflow with, teem with, be packed with, be crowded with, be alive with, be overrun with, swarm with, be bristling with, be infested with, be thick with, be lousy with, be jam-packed with, be chock-full of
creep
cower, cringe, creep, grovel, fawn

Use "crawl" in a sentence

1. Crawl, a 2014 roguelike indie video game; Dungeon Crawl, a type of scenario in fantasy role-playing games; Linley's Dungeon Crawl or Crawl, a 1997 roguelike computer game Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, an ongoing open source fork of Linley's Dungeon Crawl; Music

2. To Crawl user profiles and then Crawl SharePoint Server sites

3. Crawl definition: When you Crawl , you move forward on your hands and knees

4. It's a crawl space.

5. Crawl Space Inspection Checklist

6. Worms and snakes crawl.

7. The crawl rate that you set is the maximum crawl rate that Googlebot should make.

8. Since it happens right after birth, it is also called birth Crawl and breastfeeding Crawl.

9. Crawl Space Door Systems was founded on great Crawl space products, principles, and customer service

10. Crawl (Laughing Hyenas EP), 1992

11. Can you do the crawl?

12. Metabolism slows to a crawl.

13. Open the Crawl Stats report

14. I'll crawl under the bookcase.

15. Megan has just learned to crawl.

16. Crawled, crawl·ing, crawls 1

17. Crawled, Crawl·ing, Crawls 1

18. Her singing makes my skin crawl.

19. I don't like people who crawl.

20. Crawled, crawl·ing, Crawls 1

21. Crawled, crawl·ing, Crawls 1

22. He began to crawl uncertainly around.

23. Traffic moved forward at a crawl.

24. The traffic slowed to a crawl.

25. Boston ivies crawl along the wall.

26. Crawl leans more towards the suspense angle

27. Our baby is just starting to crawl.

28. The worms will crawl through your lungs.

29. Whether infants crawl is also culturally determined.

30. The traffic had slowed to a crawl.

31. The ghost story made my skin crawl.

32. Crawl is a nearly perfect horror film

33. Has the baby started to crawl yet?

34. It made her skin crawl, the deference.

35. How to use Crawl in a sentence.

36. Intr.v. Crawled, crawl·ing, crawls 1

37. She slowed the car to a crawl.

38. I felt something crawl up my arm.

39. And today, they crawl out and see condominiums.

40. Share Crawl report with subordinates, contractors or clients

41. The Crawl, backing band to Mike Morgan; EPs

42. Just thinking about spiders makes my skin crawl.

43. The traffic was moving at a slow crawl.

44. Spiders crawl log file folder in which ah?

45. Crawl in(to) (some place or thing) 1

46. To crawl at the feet of our masters?

47. And she would crawl around behind me going,

48. Crawl stats are available only for verified websites.

49. Crawled is a conjugated form of the verb crawl

50. Beget can accept batched crawl requests from external sources